International Journal of Ethiopian Studies (IJES) is an interdisciplinary, refereed journal dedicated to scholarly research relevant to or informed by the Ethiopian experience. IJES publishes two issues a year of original work in English and Amharic to readers around the world.

Established in 2002, the IJES is dedicated to the research and study of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. The journal contains original articles, reviews, and features filled with relevant, in-depth information on important issues. It serves as a venue for the sharing and cross fertilization of research by scholars working on issues that matter to the region and promotes important voices internationally.

PUBLISHER & EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

Elias Wondimu, Loyola Marymount University

SENIOR EDITORS

Alemayehu Gebremariam, California State University, San Bernardi

Maimire Mennasemay, Dawson College

Theodore Vestal, Oklahoma State University

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR

Fikru Gebrekidan, St. Thomas University

Essays:

Political Violence, Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Horn of Africa: Causes, Effects, Prospects. By Alem Hailu

የኢትዮጵያ ጊዜ ግንዛቤና ዘመናዊነት በመሳይ ከበደ

Ethiopia,Japan, and Jamaica: A Century of Globally Linked Modernizations. By Donald N. Levine

Implications of the 2005 Elections for Ethiopian Citizenship and State Legitimacy. By Lahra Smith

TheEthiopian Voter: An Assessment of Economic and Ethnic Influences with Survey Data. By Leonardo R. Arriola

What Good is Technical Assistance? A problem illustrated with an example from Ethiopia. By Reidulf Molvaer

EthiopianNoblemen Seated on a Royal Couch – and Dancing Girls at Däbrä Tabor: Saint Simonian Ethnographic Curiosities. By Richard Pankhurst

Review Essays:

Paulos Milkias, Haile Selassie, Western Education and Political Revolution in Ethiopia. By Messay Kebede

In Memorium

Wolf Leslau

Mekonen Bishaw

Bibliography: Year 2003, Compiled by Thomas P. Ofcansky

“IJES will, for the first time, provide Ethiopian scholars with an Ethiopian venue for refl ecting seriously on Ethiopian issues from a scholarly perspective. As a number of philosophers have pointed out, one of the deepest obstacles to African (including Ethiopia) progress towards democracy and economic prosperity was the peculiar situation of Africans being reduced to an object of knowledge by contemporary social science and, consequently, the absence of Africans, including Ethiopians, as self-examining, self evaluating, self-defi ning, and self propelling subjects of history. As a result, we have been totally dependent on external (European and American) defi nitions, interpretations, explanations, evaluations of who we are and what our problems and their solutions are. IJES is an important step in breaking away from this objectifi cation of Ethiopia. It will provide a scholarly medium for Ethiopians to reclaim their subjectivity.”- Maimire Mennasemay, Professor at Dawson College

Africa’s Cultural Ambassador, African knowledge broker, and Continental Bridge Builder are just few of the names Elias Wondimu was called in his life in the United States. After careful examination of the American media landscape and book market, an exiled journalist from Ethiopia, Wondimu discovered that stories and subjects from Africa or its residents in the diaspora are tagged negatively, ignoring the positive, subtleties and nuances that define them. As a solution, he started a media company—TSEHAI Publishers, which gives socially responsible publications and fill the void that exists in the market place. Wondimu often says that he doesn’t have a five years plan but of fifty, that aims to empower the next generation; so that they become the change that we want to see in the world.